[fse-esf] seminar merging

[Sinead Ni Bhroin]

Jon Clarke,

Could you please spare us all the pain of your churlish petty micro
commentary. 

As there clearly are so many very real difficulties with this year ESF it is
so unhelpful of you to bring your consistent pattering of misery to the
discussion. 

& Jon, before you embark on your predictable SWP diatribe, please note I
left the party in January of this year, & not on good terms.  

Thanks you.

Sinéad Ní Bhroin Ireland

-----Original Message-----
From: fse-esf-bounces at lists.fse-esf.org
[mailto:fse-esf-bounces at lists.fse-esf.org] On Behalf Of Jon Cloke

Translated this means: "Don't you know who I am! I'm a very important person

in the UK, how dare you treat my suggestions like this!"


From: "chris nineham" <chrisnineham at hotmail.com>
To: fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.org
Subject: [fse-esf] seminar merging
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:48:18 +0000


Dear all,

We are very concerned about the methods and outcome of the seminar merging 
process.

Coming up with an acceptable set of seminar proposals is a huge and 
difficult task, and we should all be grateful to Yannis for his efforts. 
Having said that, we in the British Stop the War Coalition feel that there 
are many many problems the proposals. For example, the two seminars that we 
proposed, on different topics - the occupation of Iraq and Islamophobia - 
have been put together with no less than six other seminars on very diverse 
subjects (eg 'Socialist Politics in the Middle East').

We don't believe that this is the right way to treat a very broad coalition 
whose roots in British society is reflected in the fact that it organized a 
demonstration of 100,000 on 18 March, which seems to have been the biggest 
protest in Europe to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War. We also 
concerned that the basis on which some coalitions are being required to 
merge and others not is very arbitrary: thus the thematic priority of War is

not the only one where the Charter of Principles of Another Europe is not 
being required to merge at all.

These are structrural defects that cannot be solved simply by negotiations 
among different seminar organizers but that will have to be addressed by the

meeting of the Programme Group in Athens the weekend after next.

Chris Nineham on behalf of Stop the War Coalition

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